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18494505034London: Wm. S. Orr & Co and William Smith 1849. Three volumes quarto profusely illustrated with full-page plates exquisitely hand-coloured; uniformly bound in half morocco richly gilt all edges gilt with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne. <p><p>A very fine copy in a grand binding with excellent provenance of this remarkable collaboration an exquisite work of Victorian natural history. As one of the pre-eminent entomologists of the Victorian period John Obadiah Westwood 1805-1893 served as collaborator editor and consultant on many entomological publications. He was a prodigious author and researcher publishing some four hundred scientific papers and some twenty books as well as making numerous contributions to works by other authors. In 1833 he was one of the founding members of the Entomological Society and he became honorary life president in 1883 and a fellow of the Linnaean Society. It was for his study of Australian species that Anthony Musgrave author of the Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775-1930 named the period 1831-1861 "The Westwoodian Period" in recognition of his great service during these years to Australian entomology Musgrave p. 345. </p> <p>Henry Noel Humphreys 1810-1879 was an accomplished illustrator and scholar in numerous subjects. In addition to his entomological texts Humphreys wrote works on ancient Greek and Roman coins archaeology and the art of writing and printing enriching even these simplest texts with exquisite chromolithographs printed by Owen Jones. He was inspired to embark on this ambitious planned survey of British insects following a trip to Italy. In the Preface he likened the person in the fields unacquainted with natural history to one placed in a library and unable to read. "He cannot read in the beautiful book of nature when in the summer it opens its brightest leaves". </p> <p>A contemporary review in The Lancet noted: The plates exquisitely drawn by Mr. Humphreys represent the insect in its three great stages-as the caterpillar the chrysalis and the butterfly or moth -all hanging side by side on the plants which furnish their ordinary food. The transformation thus seems to take place under the eye; and the metamorphoses are associated in the mind without any effort." In response to Humphreys' claim that "Entomology is a branch of knowledge more easily acquired than many imagine. The individual beauty of the insects in every stage the ease with which they are preserved and the comparative facility with which a complete collection of British species may be formed particularly of butterflies of which we number scarcely more than eighty distinct species render it a task of easy attainment" the same reviewer wryly noted "Mr. Humphreys throws out a suggestion which has perhaps a touch of the butterfly Utopia in it but which is ingenious and deserves trial."</p> </p> . Provenance: Each volume with the gilt arms of the Barons Sherborne with links to Australia through the Duttons of Anlaby South Australia; and the bookplate of Princess Despina Mary Karadja 1868-1943 poet writer on spiritualism founder of the White Cross Union and wife of the envoy to the Ottoman empire Jean-Constantin Karadja a distinguished diplomat and noted book collector. Wm. S. Orr & Co and William Smith unknown
1586208<p>"Un text en prose de la force de Villon" Sainte-Beuve</p><p>8vo 159x92 mm. 2 223 recte 219 1 leaves. Collation: 2 A-Z8 Aa-Dd8 Ee4. Typographic ornament on the title page. Full burgundy morocco gilt spine with five raised bands double blind-ruled fillet on the panels inside gilt dentelle gilt edges Pagnant. A very good copy.</p><p>Original edition second issue first: 1585 of the author's final collection of stories. This second issue is identical to the first including in the pagination errors but for the title page that was reset.</p><p>Noël Du Fail contributed to what literary historians termed the Golden Age of French Renaissance narrative fiction. In this respect he is part of a trio including Marguerite de Navarre and Bonaventure Des Périers. Du Fail might be regarded as a Renaissance sociologist then the <em>Contes d'Eutrapel</em> throws considerable light on the manners and general life of the day and there is frequent mention of contemporaries e.g. Girolamo Cardano's visit to the Paris medical faculty. The fantasies of Rabelais' stories and the psychology of Marguerite's characterizations have been replaced in Du Fail by a kind of Balzacian observation and recording of detail. If one views Du Fail's work as a whole it is clear that he wanted to unshackle himself from the conventions of narrative fiction especially the constraints of a sustained plot in order to criticize more directly contemporary socio-political developments. That he straddles two social backgrounds as country gentleman and lawyer gives us an inside to the thematic tensions that characterize his work: past and present city and country decadence and utopia Catholic and Protestant conservatism and social criticism cf. M.-C. Bichard-Thomine <em>Noël Du Fail conteur</em> Paris 2001 pp. 161-184.</p><p>Noël Du Fail born at the Manoir de Chateau-Létard near Rennes in Brittany studied law in Paris and saw military service in Italy in the army of François I participating in the battle of Cérisolle in 1544. He then lectures law at various French universities: Angers Poitiers Bourges and others. Beginning in 1547 he published a series of miscellaneous stories <em>Propos rustiques</em> some fictional others drawn from life incorporating into them wider reflections on society in the manner of Rabelais and Montaigne. Estienne Pasquier writing to Ronsard in 1555 speaks of him as a 'singe de Rabelais'. This is a completely uncritical remark for though Du Fail is an evident admirer of Rabelais and frequently refers to him in his books his style is his own and only resembles that of his master in a few peculiarities. His second collection of stories was published in 1548 under the title of <em>Baliverneries</em>. At that time he started his career as a lawyer judge and politician. He became councillor to the Parlement de Bretagne but was excluded from it in 1573 for his Protestant faith. Reinstate in 1576 he resumed his career and retired a year after the publication of <em>Eutrapel</em> cf. A J Krailsheimer <em>Three sixteenth-century conteurs</em> Oxford 1966 pp. 137-49.</p><p>That the name of the printer on the title page Noël Glamet and the place of printing Rennes were fictitious was clearly shown by L. Loviot <em>L'imprimeur des 'Contes d'Eutrapel'</em> in: "Revue des livres anciens" II 1917 pp. 312-313 who assigned the first and all subsequent sixteenth-century editions of the <em>Contes d'Eutrapel</em> to the Parisian press of Jean Richer.</p><p>"Né vers 1520 Noël Du Fail assez gros gentilhomme terrien a quelque soixante-cinq ans lorsqu'il donne les <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em>. Voilà plus de trente-cinq années qu'il est sagement fixé après une jeunesse peut-être mouvementée dans la Haute-Bretagne où il est né. Voilà presque le même temps qu'il est marié; le même encore qu'il exerce à Rennes des fonctions de conseiller d'abord au Présidial puis au Parlement: en cette année 1585 il est sur le point de prendre sa retraite. Les <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em> sont l'œuvre d'un homme qui a vécu: 'le feu seigneur de la Hérissaye.'. Notre homme est alors tourmenté par la goutte. Il est en relations difficiles avec nombre de ses voisins pour des motifs d' 'opinions' religeuses. L'état de la France et notamment de la noblesse française le préoccupe très fort. Les <em>Contes et Discours</em> ne sont pas exempts de traces de désarroi. Si l'homme a de l'expérience l'écrivain non plus n'en manque pas. Les <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em> apparaissent comme une 'rentrée' près de quarante ans après deux livrets facétieux <em>Propos rustiques</em> and <em>Baliverneries</em> … Œuvre d'un vieillard qui recrée à sa table le monde où il a vécu - et souvent aussi un monde plus ancien plus ou moins mythique dont il aime à vanter l'innocence - les <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em> sont essentiellement un livre descriptif. On peut même parfois déplorer chez Du Fail une tendance a épuiser le réel: ce désir de rivaliser avec le foisonnement des choses par le foisonnement des mots est une de ses façons çà ou là un peu scolaires d'être 'rabelaisien'. Mais quelques excès n'ôtent rien au fait qu'il est excellent observateur et peintre … Le theme qu'il aime d'abord c'est celui de la vie domestique. Les <em>Contes et Discours</em> présentent donc une riche galerie de femmes - car la femme incarne la maison. Du Fail insinue qu'elle se complaît fort à cet empire. Voyez plutôt ce guerrier si brave pourtant sur les champs de bataille gêné chez lui dans ses plaisirs par une épouse 'la plus avaricieuse et chiche qui fust au pays n'osant manger son soûl de peur que la terre ne luy defaillist' et prompte même à lui infliger des coups de bâton. Le ton d'une maison est donné par les dames de céans: leurs petites jalousies dès qu'il s'agit par exemple de parures ou de préséances le banc à l'église sont assez pour allumer la guerre avec les voisins car le malheureux époux ne peut qu'épouser la querelle de sa femme voudrait-elle faire battre ciel et terre - comme il arrive. Si l'on veut réconcilier les maris il faut commencer par apaiser ces dames. Mais la femme est bien excusable de s'identifier à la maison et d'y faire ainsi sentir son règne. Car c'est elle qui assure la vie de tous soigne les malades accomplit les rites du voisinage et de l'hospitalité donne les ordres aux domestiques veille aux 'buees' et au 'menu mesnage'. Plus: les temmes et elles seules 'gaignent leur vie' par leur continuel travail à la quenouille - dans toutes les classes de la société - et sans doute ce détail importe … Les données concernant l'alimentation sont bien plus nombreuses. Elles permettent d'abord d'admirer la belle unité des pays français dès le XVIe siècle en ce domaine de base. Tout comme à Metz ou aux bords du Rhône s'opposent ici les viandes au 'pot' - qui sont l'ordinaire - et les viandes friandes: 'pièce tremblante' de bœuf ou bien sûr volailles rôties à la broche dans les grandes occasions. Le fond de l'alimentation est là encore le pain tenu pour sacré en tout cas pour toujours précieux et que le maître veille à ne pas laisser gas-Bretagne comme ailleurs la maison a ses provisions de 'chair': 'andouille à la cheminee' 'jambon au charnier'; il semble que ces provisions soient plus ou moins considérées comme la propriété de la femme et que lorsque le mari se rue en cuisine cela soit jugé comme un larcin à son épouse. Du Fail confirme aussi en cette fin de siècle la généralisation de l'usage du vin objet d'un culte quasi mystique: c'étaient les anciens qui buvaient du cidre; aujourd'hui même les Bretons ont leurs crus - diversement appréciés - et ainsi l'habitude du 'vin de coucher' qu'on a vue partout répandue transparaît même dans les locutions courantes. Sur ce chapitre du régime les <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em> apportent toutefois deux notations plus originales. C'est ainsi qu'Eutrapel est décidé à appliquer le conseil du Gargantua et à 'souper' le soir plus copieusement qu'il ne 'disne' sur les dix ou onze heures du matin: l'habitude devait donc être à l'inverse. Surtout Du Fail insiste à plusieurs reprises sur la nécessité de solidement manger. Habitant une terre déjà septentrionale les Français ne peuvent pas sans grande imprudence se contenter de nourritures légères … Le noble auteur des <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em> est qu'il le veuille ou non un lettré - comme Tahureau comme Montaigne. En art il mêle aux goûts du gentilhomme breton ceux que l'humaniste a contractés dans sa jeunesse. Il prend parti dans les débats de son époque se montrant partisan résolu des modernes dont il ne réprouve que les excès. Comme tant d'hommes de son temps il aime à se poser des 'questions de nature' à élucider patiemment les choses par le 'discours'. Si au long de sa vie de Conseiller à Rennes il a surtout lu des livres de jurisprudence outre bien entendu tous nos recueils de 'contes' le vieil homme qu'il est maintenant prend goût de plus en plus aux ouvrages de 'curiositez'. Mais son 'encyclopédisme' n'a nullement le caractère parcellaire parfois ludique qu'il revêt chez un Cholières ou un G. Bouchet. Ceux-ci - le second surtout - emploient souvent le discours à des élucubrations très théoriques étrangères à leur expérience d'hommes. Esprit profondément sérieux convaincu de la mission éclairante et si l'on ose dire récapitulatrice de la raison humaine Du Fail lui ne s'intéresse en fin de compte qu'à la conduite de la vie à la morale . La structure même des <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em> le montre bien: leur dernier chapitre annonce et décrit 'la retraite d'Eutrapel' de sorte que tous les propos viennent confluer dans la définition d'un art de vivre - art de vivre sur lequel il n'y a pas grand chose à dire puisqu'il se résume à suivre gaîment nature et à accomplir les devoirs de son état on vient de dire ceux du gentilhomme mais chaque situation a les siens dans une 'médiocrité' à l'antique qu'éclaire la lumière de l'Evangile … Ainsi bien des contradictions latentes dans les <em>Contes et Discours d'Eutrapel</em> montrent que nous sommes parvenus à une limite. Si un écrivain veut débattre de sciences ou d'idées commenter les expériences de sa vie pourquoi ne rompt-il pas franchement les liens avec le genre narratif Qu'il supprime la rencontre des devisants l'accréditation globale ou successive des propos. Du même coup l'obligation de plus en plus artificielle d'être 'facétieux' s'évanouira pour lui. Il aura quitté le vieux genre narratif. Et il aura inventé l' 'essai'. A moins de cent lieues de Du Fail et exactement dans les mêmes années Montaigne - ou bientôt même Le Poulchre - aura eu cette simple audace tirant les conséquences logiques de l'évolution du genre. C'est sans doute parce que Du Fail est déjà un vieil homme attaché depuis sa jeunesse à la tradition des 'contes' qu'il n'a pas franchi le pas …" G.-A. Pérouse <em>Nouvelles françaises du XVIe siècles. Images de la vie du temps</em>Genève 1977 pp. 311-341.</p><p><em>Index Aureliensis</em> 157.018; A.Cioranesco <em>Bibliographie de la littérature française du seizième siècle</em> Paris 1959 no. 8691. J. Betz <em>Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimées en France au 16e siècle Rennes: Glamet</em> liv. 19 Baden-Baden 1975 no. 2.</p> Noël Glamet de Quinpercorentin [i.e. Jean Richert]
1931189678Paris & New York: Harrison & Minton Balch and Company 1931. With original artwork First Rose edition extra limited issue letter C of five copies only on imperial japan vellum signed by the illustrator each containing four original colour drawings by the surrealist artist Sir Francis Cyril Rose from a limited edition of 725. Rose 1909-1979 was vigorously championed by Gertrude Stein who famously said of him "Rose is a rose is a rose". His wife Frederica Lady Rose 1910-2002 became a well known travel writer notably on Corsica under the name of Dorothy Carrington. Rose was however a noted homosexual and their marriage ended by a divorce in 1966. Quarto. With 25 illustrations of which five full-page by Sir Francis Cyril Rose printed in collotype by Daniel Jacomet most with tissue-guard and four original illustrations in gouache ink and crayon. Publisher's deluxe red morocco by Huser of Paris spine lettered in gilt triple gilt fillet to turn-ins gilt edges. Housed in a morocco-entry paper slipcase. Joints expertly restored a little rubbed internally fine. A very good copy. hardcover
1924178399London & New York: Samuel French 1924-1971. Ex Libris Noël Coward First Samuel French acting editions and one later printing of Private Lives each play with the author's elegant art deco bookplate combining the masks of comedy and tragedy into a single persona. The bookplate was designed by Gladys Calthrop 1894-1980 who worked as a set and costume designer on many of the original productions of Coward's plays including Private Lives 1931 Design for Living 1933 and Present Laughter 1943. The plays later passed into the collection of Geoffrey A. Johnson Coward's close friend and US representative with his ownership stamps. Johnson 1930-2021 cast over 100 Broadway shows including Cats The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables. He first met Coward in 1961 when Johnson worked as the stage manager for the Broadway production of Coward's Sail Away. The two went on to work together until Coward's death in 1973. Johnson acted as a trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation and was the Life President of the Noël Coward Archive Trust. Hands Across the Sea Family Album The Astonished Heart and Fumed Oak were part of the Tonight at 8.30 series. This was a cycle of ten one-act plays which stared Coward and Gertrude Lawrence. Each of these plays has a "Tonight at 8.30" sticker on the front cover. 8 works octavo. With 7 photographic plates. Original wrappers lettered in black. Housed in a custom black cloth flat-back box with chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. Library stamp of W & G Foyle Music & Drama Dept. to front panel of The Young Idea UK edition. Wrappers a little toned chips to spine and head of front panel of The Young Idea US edition a few closed tears faint damp stain at head of The Young Idea UK edition Hands Across the Sea and Fumed Oak slightly cockled: a very good set. hardcover
06691London: Michael Joseph 1953. Dear Mr. Bricusse."<br /> A Superb Noël Coward Association Copy with Telegram and Telephone Message to Leslie Bricusse<br /> <br /> COWARD Noël Coward. The Noël Coward Song Book. With an introduction and annotations by Noël Coward. Illustrated in colour and black & white by Gladys Calthrop. Frontispiece portrait by Clemence Dane. London: Michael Joseph 1953.<br /> <br /> First edition. Large quarto 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 285 x 225 mm. 1-8 9-314 1 1 blank pp. Illustrated throughout with musical notation photographic reproductions and five inserted color plates including the frontispiece portrait.<br /> <br /> Publisher's original quarter yellow cloth over gray buckram boards front cover decoratively stamped in gilt spine lettered in gilt pale gray endpapers top edge stained yellow. A near fine copy in the original pictorial dust jacket jacket moderately worn at spine ends and corners with a few small chips and short tears but remarkably bright and attractive overall.<br /> <br /> Warmly inscribed by Noël Coward on the title-page: "To Leslie Bricusse with all my very best wishes Noël Coward"<br /> <br /> An exceptional theatrical association copy linking two generations of British musical theater sophistication: Noël Coward the defining wit and songwriter of the inter-war and postwar stage and Leslie Bricusse whose later successes would include Stop the World - I Want to Get Off Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Doctor Dolittle Victor/Victoria and the Academy Award-winning "Talk to the Animals."<br /> <br /> Laid into the volume are two remarkable ephemeral survivals documenting direct contact between Coward and Bricusse: An original British Post Office telegram addressed to: "LESLIE BRICUSSE QUEENS THEATRE SHAFTESBURY AVENUE W1" Reading: "DEAR MR BRICUSSE YES AM VERY INTERESTED COULD YOU PLEASE COME SAVOY HOTEL ROOM 312 NEXT MONDAY 21ST YOURS SINCERELY = NOEL COWARD"<br /> <br /> An original Swiss telephone message slip from the Société de Banque Suisse Lausanne dated "5th January 70" noting:<br /> "Mr Noel Coward asks you to ring him back please."<br /> <br /> The inclusion of both the telegram and telephone memorandum transforms the volume from a merely inscribed copy into a small archive of personal and professional communication between Coward and Bricusse during the later years of Coward's life.<br /> <br /> The Noël Coward Song Book remains the great collected monument to Coward's songwriting career gathering together the lyrics and music to many of his most celebrated compositions including material from Bitter Sweet Private Lives Conversation Piece Ace of Clubs Pacific 1860 and his famed cabaret repertoire. <br /> <br /> The volume captures Coward at the height of his reputation as dramatist composer performer and arbiter of transatlantic sophistication.<br /> <br /> An outstanding association copy with unusually intimate accompanying material connecting two major figures of twentieth-century British musical theater. London: Michael Joseph, 1953 unknown
1943409156London: Heinemann 1943. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine and portion of front cover faded the latter also spotted. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. First edition. A dedication copy "To Hugh 'Binkie' Beaumont the play's producer inscribed by the playwright on the front free endpaper: "For Hugh from Noel Coward." .all Noel's plays had been presented in England since 1939 and through the war years by H. M. Tennent Ltd. which was exemplified in the attractive persuasive amusingly talkative person of Binkie' Beaumont. Violent and occasional business flare-ups excepted Noel and Binkie were more than friends: they were the deepest closest cronies." Cole Lesley 'Remembered Laughter: The Life of Noel Coward' NY 1976 p. 287. It was Beaumont who had persuaded Coward to return to the stage to act in a trio of plays - This Happy Breed was one - after the latter's nervous breakdown in 1937. <br /> <br /> Another dedication copy to Beaumont of This Happy Breed was in the sale of Masterpieces of Modern Literature: The Library of Richard Rechler Christie's NY 11 October 2002 lot 54. It was inscribed by Coward also on the front free endpaper: "For Binkie with love from Noel / See Dedication dear Hugh." BA. Heinemann unknown
18151717131815. GOUFFE Armand. Les jeux des jeunes garcons representes par un grand nombre d'estampes accompagnees de l'explication des regles de fables inedites et d'anecdotes. 24 engraved and coloured plates. Small oblong 4to 205 x 233 mm. red half-cloth with corners and marbled paper boards. Paris: Nepveu Libraire 1815. A delightful and complete set of twenty-four plates in exquisite contemporary hand colouring depicting young boys playing a variety of games. The plates are described in the Bibliotheque Nationale catalogue as being the work of Noel Jeune which he made to accompany the work by Armand Gouffé. In immaculate condition. Extremely rare. OCLC lists copies at NYPL and UCLA both with text. Provenance: Félicie Meunié d'Hostel 1843-1935 with her engraved bookplate. hardcover
200345816Octon: Verdigris 2003. First edition. Fine. First printing of this limited deluxe edition poetic ode to a pair of pears illustrated in lovingly executed mezzotints - with original copper plate included in the original box. Judith Rothchild's and Mark Lintott's Verdigris press located in the south of France produces an eclectic selection of artist's books based around a variety of texts. For Wallace Stevens's poem of pear pondering Rothchild and Lintott have created a book that invites visual contemplation of its fruity subjects with weight added to the text by Rothchild's deeply set mezzotints. The plate included in this deluxe copy is of one of the larger illustrations and shows off the delicacy and precision involved in creating a mezzotint. An attractive production presented in both English and French. 10.5'' x 11.75'' book; 5.75'' x 5.5'' copper plate. Original stiff paper wrappers in green brown and yellow. Illustrated with nine black-and-white mezzotints of pears with three blind-embossed shapes of pears. Loose concertina textblock as issued with 20 panels printed one side only with tissue guards between each fold. With black-and-white mezzotint New Year's card numbered 17/70 and signed by Rothchild and Lintott loosely laid in. In original green yellow and brown clamshell box with original copper plate mounted to rear. A touch of rubbing to wrapper joints. Sharp and clean. Verdigris unknown
174362PDQWR6XH4WLeyden S. Luchtmans; 1743. 4to. Amsterdam H. Uytwerf Half calf ribbed spine with red morocco title labels mottled boards. With an engraved allegorical frontispiece by Jan Punt 1711-1779 and 80 engraved folding plates by F. de Bakker. 2 volumes. 8 616; 2 617-1496 4 pp. The first Dutch edition of the most popular domestic encyclopaedia of agriculture and house-keeping of the 18th century written by Noël Chomel 1632-1712 a French agronomist entrusted with the domestic management of the possessions of the abbey at Vincennes where he acquired all the knowledge necessary for a rural exploitation. The work was translated into Dutch and edited and enlarged by Jan Lodewyk Schuer who published the Groot algemeen historisch geographisch genealogisch en oordeelkundig woordboek 1733 and by Arnoldus Henricus Westerhoff or Westerhovius rector of the Latin school in Gouda and publisher of the Algemeen kunstwoordenboek der wetenschappen 1734. Westerhoff died while editing the work and his work was taken over by an anonymous editor.The book was published in parts five for the first volume and five for the second. It is enriched with at least 80 folding plates some made especially for the Dutch edition. The folding engraved plates illustrate the process of distilling the art of measuring and domestic chemistry. Under the S one also finds the "Secrets" which include water divination how to extract gold from gilt frames and the "secrets of Hippocrates". Other engravings depict garden designs plants and even a design for a fireplace. Most of the eighty folding engraved plates however illustrate the catching of birds fish and animals - not only rabbits and hares but also wolves and foxes all by means of a wide variety of traps and complicated machines. The text gives mostly advice on the keeping and care of domestic animals on beekeeping and on the cutting of trees. The Huishoudelyk woordboek is also a cookbook with many recipes for meals and home medicines although the title doesn't suggest that and also tips and tricks for keeping one's beauty and health. It remained very popular through the 18th century all through Europe and also in Japan where the Dutch translation was much in use. It was even translated into Japanese in the early 19th century.Good copy; spinw slightly worn.l Bibliotheca gastronomica 1073; BMN p. 169; Ferro incorrect imprint; Goodman Dutch impact on Japan pp. 129-130; Landwehr Het Nederlandse kookboek 29; Van der Sijs Verantwoording van de digitale uitgave van het Huishoudelijk woordboek door Noël Chomel via DBNL. ABE CAT Agriculture hardcover
1995128844Arthena. Near Fine. 1995. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 717 pages; approximately 800 illustrations including 32 in color. Hallé Noël Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Arthena hardcover
1995102815Arthena. Near Fine. 1995. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- Text in French. 717 pages; approximately 800 illustrations including 32 in color. Hallé Noël Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee Arthena hardcover
198191516Hales & Iremonger. New. 1981. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 168 pages; illustrated with both black and white and with color images. Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works Life and Work Raisonnee Hales & Iremonger hardcover
196978970Paris: Jérôme Martineau 1969. Fine. Jérôme Martineau Paris 1969 14.50 x 21 cm broché sous une boîte cartonnée Rare first edition of this masterpiece of erotic literature one of 120 numbered copies on pure laid paper the only deluxe copies. This issue complete with its cardboard box bears the cover of ""Fata Morgana"" editions while the ordinary issue bears the name of Jérôme Martineau editions. The covers of the ""Fata Morgana"" edition are slightly and uniformly sunned without gravity. Our copy N°22 indeed contains like the first 50 pure laid paper copies the original engraving by François Lunven which he signed in pencil. Jérôme Martineau unknown
2004102556ARTHENA. New. 2004. Paperback. 2903239312 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French. 167 pages; well-illustrated with many black and white and 45 color illustrations. Noël-Nicolas Noel Nicolas Catalogue Raisonne Catalog Raisonné Complete Works La Vie et L'uvre Oeuvre Raisonnee -- with a bonus offer . ARTHENA paperback
1930173615Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1930. With six folding maps and many illustrations First edition first printing in a presentation binding inscribed by the master of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club on the first leaf "Major-General Sir Arthur Wardrop C.B.E. From N. L. Sparke. Master S.P.H.C. 1930". Alexander Ernest Wardrop 1872-1961 here called "Arthur" by accident served as Commander-in-Chief North China Command between 1927 and 1929. Equestrian pursuits were extremely popular in the international settlements. Businessmen diplomats military officers and the well-to-do used them to affirm their status and build connections and Shanghai was perpetually gripped by a "mania" Weirather p. 59 for racing. Founded in 1863 the Paper Hunt Club was one of the oldest expatriate groups in the city and by 1930 it included members from 19 different nationalities. Davis's history anthologizes a large amount of information from the club's archives such as the names of stewards past and present the rules of the hunt information on preferred breeds and poems celebrating the club's traditions. A special section pays tribute to Ah Pau the head boy responsible for laying the paper trail for riders to follow. Ah Pau was invaluable when dealing with locals who objected to riders careering across their land: "in his dealings with his fellow countrymen he is usually the embodiment of imperturbability and good humour but when their rapacity and obstructiveness pass all reasonable bounds he lashes them with stinging invective and withers them with biting scorn" p. 29. The text is supported by detailed maps of Shanghai's rural environs and photographs from the private collections of members as well as drawings provided by the Shanghai-based artist Edmund Toeg and the leading cartoonist H. W. G. Hayter. Copies bound in pink cloth include a portrait of the editor bound facing page 36. Here this plate has been replaced by a special leaf bound facing the preface with a tipped-in silver print after a portrait of the author. The verso of the print has adhesive skinning suggesting it was borrowed from another source. Quarto. Large half-tone frontispiece after a photograph of the Christmas 1929 hunt by the Ah Fong Photography Studio; tipped-in silver print after photograph of author; 50 plates 2 colour 1 folding many after drawings by Edmund Toeg and 2 after caricatures by Henry William Goodenough Hayter; 6 folding maps of riding country in and around Shanghai; pen and ink illustrations by Toeg in text; red embossed vignette of horse and rider on title page. Original red padded morocco-grain skiver spine lettered in gilt front cover with gilt vignette of horse and rider pictorial endpapers edges untrimmed. Binding toned expertly recoloured in places wear at foot of spine fragile maps in excellent condition with just a little creasing: a very good copy. Biscotti Six Centuries of Foxhunting: An Annotated Bibliography p. 105; not in Mellon. Larry Weirather Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China 2015. hardcover
53243<p>Parisiis Sumptibus Authoris 1641. TITLE CONTINUED: Annorum 15 ab anno 1637. incipientes ubi sex anni priores e fontibus Lansbergianis reliqui vero e numeris Tychoni-Keplerianis eruuntur quibus accesserunt. In priori parte. 1. Isagoge in astrologiam. 2. De aeris mutatione. 3. Doctrina primi mobilis exquisitè demonstrata. In secunda parte. 1. Usus tabularum Astronomicarum pro rebus omnibus ad astronomiam spectantibus instituendis. 2. De crisium mysterio tractatus. 3. Gnomonices liber unus ubi scioterica delineandi horologia quocunque modo vel declinantia vel inclinantia methodus omnium & facillima & brevissima tabularum ope traditur. Authore Natal. Durret Cosmographo Regio ac Eminentiss. Card. Richel. 1641 Latin text 4to approximately 245 x 185 mm 9¾ x 7¼ inches engraved architectural title page to the first part by Pierre Lombard with small portraits of Tycho Brahe Lansbergius and C. Ptolomaeus engraved and woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text pages: 12 1-110 1-181 1 1-44 1-48 1-64 followed by tables: 8 1-56 1-44 12 1-168 1- 263 5 with divisional title pages. Bound in modern blind panelled calf raised bands to spine with blind motif in compartments gilt lettered red morocco label. Edge repair with old paper to blank side of title page and engraved title light damp stain to lower outer corner of first 8 leaves including both title pages occasional very pale damp stain to fore-edge margins 2 lower margin corners very neatly repaired 2 pages slightly stained on text no loss of legibility 1 brief marginal note some table margins trimmed close a few with loss of page number and just shaved at fore-edges pale age-browning throughout. A very good copy. Noël Duret or Natalis Durret born in Montbrison in 1590 died in Paris in 1650 was a French mathematician and astronomer cosmographer of King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. See: Sotheby's Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Part IV No. 678. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.</p> Parisiis, Sumptibus Authoris, 1641. hardcover
1981780ROGNER & BERNHARD 1981-85. Deutschland!. softcover. Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis 171192205211 ROGNER & BERNHARD paperback
1924129278London: Oxford University Press 1924. In two volumes. Pp. xvi282last blankx283-580 coloured frontispiece with tissue guard Volume I plus 128 black & white plates including the frontispiece to Volume II 2 folding tables appendices index; impl. 8vo; rebound in later dark green half morocco the spines lettered and ruled in gilt between raised bands dark green cloth boards; a.e.g. others uncut Volume I partly unopened; later endpapers; a few tiny edge splits or chips occasional minor pencilled marginalia a little light foxing and soiling; Oxford University Press London 1924. First edition limitation not stated. Apparently limited to about 800 copies of which nearly half were subsequently pulped according to records in the Oxford University Press archive. A comprehensive history of the game including sections on the Literature of Tennis Laws of Tennis Construction of Courts etc. Oxford University Press unknown
1832145545London: John Murray 1832-33. A handsome set A very handsome set of Byron's collected works including his letters and journals and Moore's biography of the poet. 17 vols octavo 163 x 100 mm. With engraved frontispieces and vignette title pages. Contemporary green morocco spines lettered in gilt gilt in compartments gilt borders and turn-ins marbled endpapers gilt edges. Spines lightly sunned minor browning to plates and sporadic very light foxing; a superb set. unknown
1956175173New York: 1956. A complicated web of intrigue An original script for the playwright's salacious drama never performed in his lifetime inspired by Ian Fleming's affair with Blanche Blackwell. The two were Coward's neighbours during his time in Jamaica. Coward and Fleming were close friends. In 1948 Coward visited Jamaica where he rented Goldeneye from Fleming for a week: "On arrival a boyish teasing friendship and good-natured rivalry over Jamaica began between Coward and Fleming. Fleming too enjoyed the sparring and wrote about the outcome of Coward's first visit. 'He Coward then went off and as close to me as he could get built a house what am I saying - four houses and - to hell with the charms of Bermuda and Switzerland! - comes here every year" Brooks p. 226. Coward's Jamaican home allowed him to observe the actions of his neighbours from a close range: "A complicated web of intrigue which gave Coward ample material for his play" Hoare. This not only included Fleming and Blackwell's affair but also that of Fleming's wife Ann with the politician Hugh Gaitskell. Coward would later write about another of Fleming's affairs with his future wife Ann in his only novel Pomp and Circumstance 1960. Provenance: Geoffrey A. Johnson Coward's close friend and US representative with his ownership stamps. Johnson 1930-2021 cast over 100 Broadway shows including Cats The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables. He first met Coward in 1961 when he worked as the stage manager for the Broadway production of Coward's Sail Away. The two went on to work together until Coward's death in 1973. Johnson acted as a trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation and was the Life President of the Noël Coward Archive Trust. Quarto. 97 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. Original brown wrappers secured by three brass split pins front cover lettered in black sticker for the Rialto Mimeographing and Typing Service Bureau on front wrapper. Bottom edge a little nicked and creased: a near-fine copy. Victoria Brooks Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame Volume 1 2002; Philip Hoare "Volcano: Noël Coward's Caribbean Play" The Arts Desk accessible online. unknown
190624760<p>REILLY & LEE CO Chicago 1906. .Title Page in Color of Boy & Girl with 2 Soldiers in Red Marching is Titled in Black All color plates are present and in good shape Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped light soilHBDJ 1906 Early Edition UNDATED VG-/GOOD AS-IS Book is in VG- condition with a beautiful bright color cover Matches DJ Illustration. Beautiful Bright Color Beige Original Green Red & Yellow & Blue lightly Rubbed Illustrated ClothCover picture Spine has light wear and a little splitting starting at top and bottom but is complete and legible. Light edge wear to the cover and corners. All text pages are intact and well attached to the binding. Hinges are unsplit. Pages are clean with no marks or tears light FOX Wear. A very nice little copy especially with the dust jacket! GOOD Dust jacket repeats the cover design and pretty much almost complete with just a little chipping at the ends of the spine and along the ends of the inside flap folds Wear & some Splitting at Crease. Also a couple of 1" closed tears now protected in a mylar cover. There is also a very small piece of tape residue on the top front--about 2/3" long --not very noticeable at all. BACK DJ LIGHT wear Soil & tiny Chips Tears ExtremitiesSmall 4 3/4 X 6 3/4 in Approx Small Tear front DJ Edge Spine DJ light Scuff rub tiny Chips Tears Edges 64 pgs .Sugar-Loaf Mountain is probably the rarest of the Twinkle Tales even rarer with the original dust jacket Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright Frank Lloyd Wright's sister. Hard Cover.</p> REILLY & LEE CO Chicago hardcover
164769424London: Johannem Benson 1647. Full Description:<br> <br> DURET Noel. Novae Motuum Caelestivm Ephemerides Richelianae. annorum 15 ab anno 1637 incipientes ubi sex anni priores e fontibus Lansbergianis reliqui vero e numeris Tychoni-Keplerianis eruntur quibus accesserunt. In priori parte. 1 Isagoge in astrologiam. 2 De aeris mutatione. 3 Doctrina primi mobilis exquisite demonstrata. In secunda parte. 1 Usus tabularum astronomicarum pro rebus omnibus ad astronomian spectantibus instituendis. 2 De crisium mysterio tractatus. 3 Gnomonices liber unus ubi scioterica delineandi horologia quocunque modo vel declinantia vel inclinantia methodus omnium & facillima & brevissima tabularum ope traditur. Authore Natal. Durret cosmographo regio at Eminentiss. Card. Richel. London: Johannem Benson 1647.<br> <br> First British edition. According to the British Library this edition is a reissue with new title-page of the 1641 Paris first edition. Two parts in one small thick folio volume 9 1/8 x 7 inches; 233 x 178 mm. 12 110 135 138-181 1 errata 44 48 64 8 56 56 168 261 7 pp. Textually complete. Bound without the engraved title-page. With three tipped in engraved flaps one engraved folding plate and numerous woodcut diagrams throughout the text. With an inserted two page contemporary manuscript ephemrides for the 1649 Julian calendar. Collates the same as the British Library Copy. We could only find one other copy of this London edition at auction and two of the first Paris edition one of which was incomplete. ESTC only reports two copies at libraries The British Library and the UCLA Clark.<br> <br> Full contemporary speckled calf. Board double ruled in blind. Spine with two paper labels. Edges speckled red. Boards rubbed and bumped. Head and tail of spine with some minor repairs. With no pastedown endpapers. Some minor light dampstaining to outer margins of a few leaves. Leaf B2 within "De Crisium Mysterio with some closed tears but with no loss. Five leaves within the Ephemeris for 1643 trimmed close at fore-edge touching edge of text. Previous owner Thomas Oswald's bookplate to inside of front cover and with his 17th century signature to title page. With an inserted sheet likely from the same hand noting the lunar positions for 1649 in the Julian calendar. Overall a very good copy of this rare title.<br> <br> "Noël Duret or Natalis Durret 1590 in Montbrison Loire - 1650 in Paris was a French mathematician and astronomer cosmographer for King Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu. He was one of the publishers of François Viète." He assisted Richelieu and was given the title "cosmographe du roi."<br> <br> The first part of this volume comprises three texts on astrology and the second part comprises three works that include Ephemeris for years 1637-1651 as well as astronomical tables.<br> <br> Houzeau & Lancaster 15149; Wing D-2695A; ESTC R174892.<br> <br> HBS 69424.<br> <br> $3000. Johannem Benson unknown
20172-0470659637Blackwell Pub 2017. Hardcover. New. 8217 pages. 11.50x11.00x17.75 inches. Blackwell Pub hardcover
2005106Unique handwritten copy made by Bernard Noel for Els Baekelandt and Carlos Sánchez-Ãlamo.<b><br /></b><br />The book is decorated with three gestural calligraphies in color by Els Baekelandt. <b><br /></b><br />These 15 poems "were written in 1986 and 1987 . but have remained unpublished except for 3 or 4 that have appeared in magazines as a whole until now" author's disclaimer.<b><br /></b><br />Considered one of the great contemporary French poets Bernard Noël died on April 13 at the age of 90. Friend of Georges Perros "carrier of suitcases" at the time of the Algerian war he was the last author censored and condemned in 1973 for outrage to morality after the publication of his Château de Cène. This immense work of the pen. Bernard Noël "A man who sinks his teeth into the present and never accepts compromise. With his language he opens the trap doors of the world where it is advisable in all lucidity to go and see clearly even if the way is complex and if it requires efforts" confides Charles Tordjman his friend and stage companion. Yonnel Liégeois.<br />Through his poems his stories his plays his historical or political books his texts on painting Bernard Noël is a writer of first importance whose number of readers in France but also abroad does not cease growing.<b><br /></b><br />Writing is his life his body his faith. He gives himself through it without counting the cost. If he is "outside the genres" and remains unclassifiable his originality makes that each of his pages is signed recognizable identifiable by a writing a voice a language . The unity of his work is however indisputable. It even defies any attempt of the critic to isolate a characteristic point of his writing.<b><br /></b><br />Calligrapher painter graphic designer Els Baekelandt was born in Belgium in 1963. She moved to Paris in 1986 after graduating from the Saint Luc School of Art in Ghent. She devotes much time to gestural painting and experiments with a multitude of different techniques. Former companion of the painter Claude Mediavilla she created with her husband Carlos Sanchez Alamo a calligraphy and bookbinding workshop. <b><br /></b><br />Unique handwritten copy of these unpublished poems by Bernard Noel made for Els Baekelandt and Carlos Sanchez-Alamo preserved in its superb binding made by Carlos Sanchez-Alamo. Els Baekelandt
2012Atlantic-9781412903691Sage Publications 2012. Hardcover. New. Sage Publications hardcover
